Chess master Roger Capar dies of heart failure and meets Death in the afterworld, who enjoys playing chess with him. When the doctors bring Capar back to life, Death continues visiting him to play for information about imminent deaths.; Train conductor Fred Ormesbee quits his job because he's made an offer he can't refuse. Riding the train of the dead to Hades.; Captain Enoch Claughton kills the native girl Mauna for a bag of pearls. He is haunted by her ghostly apparition for decades and finally claimed to join her in death.; Hiram Gehr has built a machine to transmigrate souls of old men into the bodies of deceased young men. They pay him for this service to feel young again. When Gehr gets greedy, his customers protest and things get out of hand.